Toning down the gravitas of the franchise is only going to deter the likes of Sean Connery or Tom Hanks or Toshiro Mfume or Louise Fletcher from clamoring to appear in Star Trek. No one is going to be celebrating these shows as masterpieces in 25 years, they way we are with DS9. As to the others, they’ve occasionally had their moments - Saru’s arc in particular - but on the whole, they’re either dumbed down, or cringeworthy, or excessive nostalgia ploys/fan service, or overly emotional and new-agey (ghosts and magic mushrooms, anyone?). I have more-or-less enjoyed SNW ( I could have done without “Spock Amok” and the fairy tale episode) and Picard (season one, anyway), as a coda to TNG. And they should have appointed someone like Christopher Nolan or Vince Gilligan or even Manny Coto - in other words, someone who cares about the craft - to helm the franchise. Instead, they gave us too many low-quality shows, comedies, kiddie fare, alternate timelines, prequels, etc. Paramount should have focused on a single, high-quality show, set 100-200 years after TNG: essentially STAR TREK: THE THIRD GENERATION. TrekMovie offers our condolences to the friends and family of Louise Fletcher. RIP Nurse Ratched #LouiseFletcher /bbmChrpPGy TNG Star Jonathan Frakes also offered his condolences. KAI WINN WALKS WITH THE PROPHETS – REST IN POWER, LOUISE /7SDW6CoPvP I would have loved to interview her for our documentary but we never could synch schedules.ĭiscovery co-creator Bryan Fuller, who worked on DS9 before moving to Voyager, expressed his condolences by saying Fletcher’s Kai Winn “walks with the Prophets.” On Friday night Deep Space Nine executive producer and showrunner Ira Steven Behr said on Twitter that fans of the series should be in mourning, and he praised Fletcher’s work saying she was a “key player” and “stone cold pro who committed totally to her character.” Behr also picked up on how fans love to hate the character of Winn, saying “She was so damn good being so damn bad.”Įvery fan of #StarTrekDS9 should be in mourning tonight.Ī stone cold pro who committed totally to her character. Louise Fletcher as Winn Adami in Deep Space Nine Trek community remembers Fletcher Who are you playing?” I’d say, “Think the Pope in space, except she’s like an ancient Pope, from the old days when Popes were ruthless and powerful and exerted their powers and fought wars and did all kinds of naughty things.” People would say, “Oh, you’re doing Star Trek. She was sort of a Margaret Thatcher in space, or, as I used to say, I was the Pope in space. In a 2012 interview with, Fletcher spoke about how she approached the character’s motivation: Fletcher was nominated for five (and won four) awards from the Online Film & Television Association for her work on Deep Space Nine. The Bajoran Vedek who rose to Kai often came into conflict with Benjamin Sisko and Kira Nerys, making her one of the franchise’s best-known adversaries. Star Trek fans know Fletcher for her recurring role of Winn Adami, appearing 14 times over seven seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. She is survived by her two sons, John and Andrew.Louise Fletch in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and with her Oscar A blazing talent and a compete class act."įletcher married producer Jerry Bick in the 1960s, but they got divorced in 1977. He said on social media: "It was an honour and a pleasure to write for Louise Fletcher, one of the absolute greats. Robert Hewitt Wolfe - who was a writer for 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine' - has already paid a glowing tribute to the late actress, describing her as a "blazing talent". She had a recurring role in 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine' in the 1990s, while she also earned widespread acclaim for her appearances in 'Picket Fences' and 'Joan of Arcadia'. The movie proved to be a turning point in her career, after she'd previously put her working life on hold for a decade to take care of her children.įletcher won the Academy Award for Best Actress, as well as a BAFTA and a Golden Globe, for her role in the iconic movie, which also claimed the Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Screenplay gongs at the Oscars.Īnd although her career never scaled the same heights, Fletcher still enjoyed significant success in the film and TV industries. The Hollywood star's career spanned six decades, but she was actually a relative unknown when she appeared opposite Jack Nicholson in the psychological drama in 1975.įletcher was handed the role after other, better-known actresses - including Dame Angela Lansbury and Ellen Burstyn - rejected the part in the film. The Oscar-winning actress - who was best known for playing Nurse Ratched in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' - passed away at her home in the south of France.
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